POST HOG!
The super bowl was basically background noise while I ate good food and worked on a bridge.
Had either team been a little more of significance to me.. I may have had a better attention span of a two-year-old
Anyway here's the bridge I'm working on because I want to make the bottom look Mint.
You have no idea how hard that prefab crap was to cut out and even worse the diagonal members I installed that had to be cut out too so I can get to the non-yield Sub- surface -Way they go
TF
York1Kevin, I thought of you the other day. When I go to the Menards, there is a Lowes, a Home Depot, and a Menards within a ½ mile of each other. If you can't find what you want in one, you have two other chances to find it. They all three have help-wanted signs. You could move up here and get three jobs.
After all the work I have put into this house, I don't think I will ever move. I have everything almost exactly the way I want it from surround sound to garage door opener controls.
I just had a heart-break on my train room. I will fill you guys in tomorrow. This is really bad.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
My stepdad the marine sergeant had a cartoon on the wall in the dock house by the outboard motors.
It said "I'd like to compliment you on your work, When's the last time you did any"?
I of all people know what work is and lately I've been pulling a Kevin
I have to put this stuff back so do you think you can e-mail me your cement mixer?
I'd hate to mix it in that bucket in the photo and the Winter gets wickeder because I have three more of them to do
I like it
Did I forget to mention to say that I enjoyed my slow work Winter until recently
Follow the gray brick road
You know you can't breathe in those condo units working while making lots of dust because it's 10 below outside and you can't open a window
I deserve a little compassion here
I forget to mention to say that it's on the third floor of the east side of the building and the dumpster is just below that but you have to go to the middle towards the west to go down to the basement to go back up to the dumpster and then you can dump it after you haul it.
Oh well I'm going to hit the rack as it's late and I hope you all have a great night Kids.
A horse is a horse of course of course unless it's a horse that you endorse.
If Pullman Cars or an Iron Horse, I would talk to Mister Ed
P.S. Mr T, ..I don't know why you continue to delete my posts. If you continue I will be going away for a long long time.
Humor Italian, as my last name is about as Italian as it gets as my great-grandfather was adopted by an Italian family.
Scottish my blood but my Italian last name. It's about time every one of the world quits being so stuck on being offended by humor of orientation or derivative of ethnic background.
Nobody's has ever offended me by a deco joke
And I don't remember the last time I was with my Italian friends that were offended by anything else like that either
Well Alrighty Then
I've seen your beef for a long time Tom
You achieved your objective
Hi TF,
I love your coffee table! Is that an old chest?
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Yes it is Dave and thanks for asking
It's a shipping trunk from the 1800s that was given to Judy by a family that befriended her. It was passed down through their family.
They had five of them and did not have room as they downsized and Judy was honored by taking one and they would be glad that it remained in family because they considered Judy as that.
She was told that the wealthy did not just go on vacation but they would go on somewhat of a crusade and leave for months so they needed big trunks to take all their things.
TF,
By the way, the nachos looked pretty good too!
For Valentines dinner we are having Filet Mignon that has been dry aged in our fridge for 5 days as well as grilled lobster tails with insane amounts of garlic in the butter. You can never have too much garlic! (That is unless you are going on a first date or a job interview). We will top that off with double baked cheese potatoes, a Boston lettuce salad with marinated onions, and some vegies. I can hardly wait!
Good morning Diners. A bowl of porridge please, Zoe. No whisky in it. I shall be out driving the car in the pouring rain a little later.
Glad you are back TF. The handing down of the trunk is really great. In our family it is the handing down of names. The boys born Dawn's side of the family are nearly all called John and the girls born my side of the family are (nearly all) called Julia. Great fun (or confusing) at family get togethers.
Charlie. It is always sad (to me) to hear of breaking up a layout. Do you have a HO layout already?
No snowploughs, but snowy scenes. Note how grass still peers through the snow. The indistinct shapes in the distance as the snow softens the scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfrWHs5iG5s&ab_channel=TJBRoad%2CRail%26Racing
Thoughts & Peace to All who Require.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
This video is a great example of how hard the rotary ploughs have to work to clear heavy snow accumulations:
Good morning, everyone. It's a bright, crisp, cold morning outside.
Bacon, eggs, and black coffee, and then a trip to the train store. I'm not sure how the day could get any better.
Dave, that video was taken about 20 miles west of me. There are several places like that along the BNSF tracks that get deep snow whenever the wind blows. There is another spot like that about 5 miles west of us. Thanks for the video.
TF, I'm glad I live far enough away from you so that, even though I will offer to help you carry all that broken concrete, it's impossible for me to get there to help!
David, that's an interesting family tradition with names. My family doesn't have anything like that, although I am actually the third John. The jokes about two johns not being enough for my family all grew old a long time ago.
I hope everyone has a good day today. If I get bored later, I'll check back in after the drive.
York1 John
SeeYou190I just had a heart-break on my train room. I will fill you guys in tomorrow. This is really bad.
This is my disaster.
As I have combined the four rooms that will become the train room... I have discovered that the door wall will not be straight. The wall is going to be offset by 6 inches.
This was absolutely not the plan, and that lost 6 inches is critical. The model building desk is 6 feet long, and I needed a five foot layout width to turn 180 degrees 4 tracks at that end of the layout. Dropping the layout width by six inches will make the inner loop less than 18 inch radius, and I will lose at least three staging tracks.
The only solution seems to be to cut the model building desk down by 6 inches, but that is nearly unaaceptable because then the paint drawers will not fit beneath it.
This offset also ruins the backdrop behind Port Annabel and reduces the waterfront scene by a few square feet.
Oh boy. I had no idea the walls were out of alignment.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
We'll be celebrating with sushi tonight at one of our new favorite places. Then, Wednesday night we will get a bit fancier, but that restaurant has taken its usual winter break and is just re-opening that evening.
Dining out in a summer resort community can be an exercise in planning. Smaller places just don't take reservations, and everyone is crowded all summer, so we do most of our dining out in the winter. Besides that, parking anywhere near the beach is next to impossible, and they're talking about raising the rates again.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Im not sure what this has to do with a train, but I will chew on this and see what comes of it!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Track fiddlerDid I forget to mention to say that I enjoyed my slow work Winter until recentlySad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzpQPDSr2s
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
SeeYou190This was absolutely not the plan, and that lost 6 inches is critical. The model building desk is 6 feet long, and I needed a five foot layout width to turn 180 degrees 4 tracks at that end of the layout. Dropping the layout width by six inches will make the inner loop less than 18 inch radius, and I will lose at least three staging tracks.
Mike
Good Afternoon,
Another cold day here. It is -21C right now but the wind is light so not too bad. I have to make a bird seed run as we are nearly out. We are going through about 75 lbs. a week now and that is shelled sunflower seed so it is expensive. Oh well, they are struggling this winter with the cold and snow. It is mostly the large flock of Redpolls but there are quite a few sparrows and house finches too.
Northbrit Dave, I have an HO layout and built the N scale on a door as we were planning on moving to a condo on Vancouver Island after I retired in 2013. The move was cancelled but I finished th N scale layout anyway. It is fully sceniced. I still have one train left and may just leave it at that as it isn't in the way. More just a reminder of a failed plan.
Time to check the feeders again.
CN Charlie
Hi again, diners.
Kevin, I wish I was more creative so I could give some design advice. I'm sure you will be able to figure something out somehow. It might not be what you planned. Earlier, when you said there was a major disaster, I thought the worst and that your train room was no longer going to be a train room. Good luck.
I just returned from a trip to the train store. What a great place. I talked a while to the owner who had just returned from a major trip to Massachusetts, Maryland, and then Colorado.
This is all HO stuff as far as you can see! Behind this stuff, at the far end of the building, is aisle after aisle of N scale stuff. And, he sells most of this under the prices you can find online, and there's no shipping fee. I bought N Atlas flex track and Peco turnouts both for less than I found anywhere online:
Like a kid in a candy shop!
Kevin: That has to be disappointing. However, I would bet that you can come up with a solution that will work for you.
I have a similar problem in my basement. My train room is 19' x 40'. However, 5' x 40 feet nearest the center wall, with two entrance doors, has a ceiling that is about 6' 4" tall. I am 6' 7' tall, and I have to stoop to enter the room regardless which entrance I use. The lowered ceiling is part of the return air system for the HVAC system, which is housed in a room on the other side of the wall between the two entrances. I guess I could widen and shorten it, but that would be a whole lot of work. I could make that area a long workbench, but that cuts the width of my layout down considerably.
York1 Hi again, diners. Kevin, I wish I was more creative so I could give some design advice. I'm sure you will be able to figure something out somehow. It might not be what you planned. Earlier, when you said there was a major disaster, I thought the worst and that your train room was no longer going to be a train room. Good luck. I just returned from a trip to the train store. What a great place. I talked a while to the owner who had just returned from a major trip to Massachusetts, Maryland, and then Colorado. This is all HO stuff as far as you can see! Behind this stuff, at the far end of the building, is aisle after aisle of N scale stuff. And, he sells most of this under the prices you can find online, and there's no shipping fee. I bought N Atlas flex track and Peco turnouts both for less than I found anywhere online: Like a kid in a candy shop!
John,
I just had to Google the location. 100 miles to Lincoln, 160 to Omaha, and over 200 to Kansas City. No offense to the locals, but it's really out in the tules. How does a place that size stay in business in a small town like Deshler?
John
Good early evening
I always liked Gilligan Ray. I I can't even remember his real name at the moment. His character in Gilligan's Island was he came across kind of slow but was a likable happy-go-lucky kind of guy. What was funny is, about 9 times out of 10 he always knew what was going on more than the skipper ever did
This drinking for the Super Bowl thing is way overrated. Judy and I got ripped last night Actually I don't drink very much anymore, in fact the last time was my birthday back in December.
I don't know? Every Blue Moon we play hard over here. We are responsible though and I brought Judy to work early in the morning and got to my job too.
I decided to build dams kind of like when you were a Kid and made dams in the street early spring from what was left over from the salt sand trucks all Winter. It was amazing how long those dams in the street lasted back in the day but these boards sealed with caulk we're much more funner
I used that high dollar self-leveling RS mud at $33 bucks per bag $600+ dollars later because Kevin wouldn't borrow me his cement mixer The stuff was great because you just put 5 1/2 quarts of water in the bucket, dump the whole bag in there and mixed it with your paddle in a 1/2" drill
I did every other one like leapfrog and then a couple hours later I could knock the forms out and pour the mud in-between. It worked like a Champion man, ...and I barely had to break a sweat
Have a great evening gentlemen
Attuvian1John, I just had to Google the location. 100 miles to Lincoln, 160 to Omaha, and over 200 to Kansas City. No offense to the locals, but it's really out in the tules. How does a place that size stay in business in a small town like Deshler? John
It's pretty amazing. He started this business by traveling to train shows. He was honest and trustworthy, and built up a reputation. Then, he bought an old grocery store in this little town of 800 people. It became his brick and mortar store. Even more amazing, it's eight miles off a highway.
He and his wife continue to travel to shows each weekend.
While in the store today, I looked through his guestbook on the checkout counter. He has had visitors to his store from everywhere.
His Internet presence is not real large. He does some business online, but mostly it's people calling the store. They have a huge supply, but if they don't have something, they will get it.
I think it shows that hard work, honesty, fairness, and helpfulness are still important in building a business.
On Google maps, check out the reviews.
hon30critter TF, By the way, the nachos looked pretty good too! For Valentines dinner we are having Filet Mignon that has been dry aged in our fridge for 5 days as well as grilled lobster tails with insane amounts of garlic in the butter. You can never have too much garlic! (That is unless you are going on a first date or a job interview). We will top that off with double baked cheese potatoes, a Boston lettuce salad with marinated onions, and some vegies. I can hardly wait! Dave
Man that sounds good Dave. I think we are getting due for a dinner like that and thanks for reminding me My mouth started watering just hearing you talk about it
I'm with you on there's no such thing as too much garlic. Onions as well. Sometimes you luck out on either one, in regard that you get the best and can't get any more like that for a while, so you enjoy it when you do. Judy found some onions that were so sweet it was almost like eating an apple. Those didn't affect your eyes when you were cutting them
When Judy and I lived south of the river we went to the Garlic Festival every year. These farmers in Hutchinson took their garlic crop very seriously and I don't know why they wouldn't It was a really fun day. It was a huge Farmers Market and we would get this dark colored hand harvested honey that was so good.
At that fair we would get a full clove of garlic every year that was doused in butter and eat the whole thing. Perhaps my imagination but Judy said the same thing. We were full of energy and almost felt like our hair was standing on end for a couple of days.
I don't know why we haven't gone to that festival for quite a long time. I think we're going to have to re-visit that this year
BroadwayLion
Thanks for the breakfast pastries and such lately brother Elias
Hopefully the sad look on your face in this picture passed quickly. I feel confident that it probably did as you are well-liked around here
And now for something completely different......
when I go to look at TF's last post on page nine, I get a warning that the site contains suspicious format. TF, what did you do?
when I go to look at TF's last post on page nine, I get a warning that the site contains suspicious contentt. TF, what did you do?